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Booking Holdings plans to invest $100 million in Vayo, a new Seattle travel startup run by serial entrepreneur Mike Fridgen. GeekWire reported the bet is that travel-specific agents plan trips better than general-purpose assistants from OpenAI and Meta.
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Amazon says the plugin connects to a seller account in about 60 seconds, after which Claude or Amazon Quick can read sales analytics and change prices. Each action still waits for the seller's approval.
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Meta's Muse started hitting a Conditions of Use popup on Amazon.com on Sunday evening, and the next day Amazon filed a 41-page amended complaint against Perplexity. Anyone shipping a buying agent now needs the store's permission first.
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Amazon stopped Meta's agent at its own website on September 20, citing conditions of use that speak about robots and data gathering tools. Its court case against Perplexity's shopping agent had already been set back on appeal.
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Amazon says the mid-December disruption touched only Cost Explorer in one region and came out of a misconfigured role. The safeguard it shipped afterwards, mandatory peer review for production access, governs people.
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Microsoft's new code of conduct binds only the MAI models it builds in house, and it rejects the model welfare research at Anthropic, where Microsoft has $5bn invested and whose Claude models it sells inside Copilot.
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His memo wants an AI tax, jobs reserved for people and new institutions to manage the transition. Europe left the tax out of its 2017 robotics vote, so the part that travels is his claim that the industry crossed its own safety lines.
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